HyperDic: wandering_nerve

English > 1 sense of the expression *wandering nerve*:
NOUN	body	wandering nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve	a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera

English > *wandering nerve*: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaning	A mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera.
Synonyms	vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve
Broader	cranial nerve	Any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem
Spanish	nervio vago, vago